Julia Stewart-David
DG ECHO Director B (Acting)
Biography
Acting Director of the Disaster Preparedness and Prevention Directorate, European Commission's Directorate General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations
Julia Stewart-David has worked on EU external relations and global issues for over twenty years. She is currently Acting Director of the Disaster Preparedness and Prevention Directorate and Head of Unit responsible for policy, cross-sectoral, institutional and Neighbourhood cooperation on the Union's Civil Protection Mechanism. Her previous roles included EU-US relations, Neighbourhood policy and over a decade of humanitarian system and disaster risk management representational and policy roles. Julia's wider professional interests include organisational learning, on which she focused her research efforts while on sabbatical as the 'EU fellow' at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University (Boston, USA) in 2015-16. She is also active in the EU's community of practice of 'Participatory Leadership’.
Organisation
European Commission
EU institutions
Speaker session
Localisation: The guidance on the promotion of equal partnerships with local responders
Studio
The Commission has set out its approach on strengthening equal partnerships with local responders around five pillars: 1) recognising skills and supporting capacities, 2) equitable partnerships, 3) participation throughout the humanitarian response cycle, 4) strengthening the leadership role of local and national humanitarian actors, 5) facilitating access to localised financing models. This session will discuss what good practices have been adopted by organisations and governments on these subjects and how can they be replicated. The session will also evaluate what actions are most relevant/effective for implementing durable solutions for localisation. Finally, the session will discuss how to move forward to support localisation at a global level, for example through alliances with other donors.
Session 2: Quality Funding
Auditorium
Juliet Eyokia
Project Manager
Biography
Key roles: coordination of the day-to-day activities, ensuring adherence to financial, procurement, and other internal control policies, as well as donor guidelines; capacity strengthening of local responders; coordination with government and UNHCR, representation of CEFORD in different fora; staff training and support; joint project reviews and project reporting among others.
Organisation
Community Empowerment for Rural Development (CEFORD)
NGO
Speaker session
Localisation: The guidance on the promotion of equal partnerships with local responders
Studio
The Commission has set out its approach on strengthening equal partnerships with local responders around five pillars: 1) recognising skills and supporting capacities, 2) equitable partnerships, 3) participation throughout the humanitarian response cycle, 4) strengthening the leadership role of local and national humanitarian actors, 5) facilitating access to localised financing models. This session will discuss what good practices have been adopted by organisations and governments on these subjects and how can they be replicated. The session will also evaluate what actions are most relevant/effective for implementing durable solutions for localisation. Finally, the session will discuss how to move forward to support localisation at a global level, for example through alliances with other donors.
Session 2: Quality Funding
Auditorium
Mirjana Spoljaric
President
Biography
Ms Mirjana Spoljaric is President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), commencing in October 2022. Ms Spoljaric most recently served as the United Nations Assistant Secretary-General, Assistant Administrator of the U.N. Development Programme (UNDP), and Director of the Regional Bureau for Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States. Earlier Ms Spoljaric served in several assignments in the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs in Bern, and as Counsellor and Head of the Political Team at the Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the United Nations in New York.
Organisation
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
International organisation
Speaker session
Localisation: The guidance on the promotion of equal partnerships with local responders
Studio
The Commission has set out its approach on strengthening equal partnerships with local responders around five pillars: 1) recognising skills and supporting capacities, 2) equitable partnerships, 3) participation throughout the humanitarian response cycle, 4) strengthening the leadership role of local and national humanitarian actors, 5) facilitating access to localised financing models. This session will discuss what good practices have been adopted by organisations and governments on these subjects and how can they be replicated. The session will also evaluate what actions are most relevant/effective for implementing durable solutions for localisation. Finally, the session will discuss how to move forward to support localisation at a global level, for example through alliances with other donors.
Session 2: Quality Funding
Auditorium